Police said 25-year-old Jaren Brezovar and 32-year-old Tammy Ilk had been at it for last four weeks and would sell the metal to buy heroin.

A Harley security guard eventually got suspicious of the pair, who would go in every Saturday at the same time in a power-washing company truck.

According to the criminal complaint, the two were stopped by Menomonee Falls police shortly after they left the plant on Pilgrim Road.

At the time, they had about 298 pounds of copper in their car that they allegedly took from Harley.

Also in the complaint it says that's when they confessed to police about what they'd been doing.

Police said the pressure washer company's contract expired several months ago, however, Ilk was able to sign in at Harley's security gate as a ruse. Then, Brezovar would get out and haul copper into the truck.

The two sold the copper at Auto and Scrap Recyclers in Milwaukee.

Ilk bonded out of jail. At last check, Brezovar was still in at the Waukesha County Jail.

A Harley-Davidson spokeswoman told WISN 12 News this was the second time a group of people has stolen copper from their Menomonee Falls plant this month, but the two incidents are not related.

She said they have tightened their security.

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